CORRECTION in Nishiyama and Kabashima' confirming page month is not May. but Mar.

2014 04 01.1034

This transient was observed on 2014 04 01.1034 by Gianluca Masi, Francesca Nocentini and Patrick Schmeer, remotely using the 17"-f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility, at Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Ceccano, Italy. 20-seconds exposures, unfiltered, show the source at mag. 11.0 (R mags for the reference stars from UCAC-4). We also performed astrometry, getting the following end figures: 42.32; 29.4 (J2000.0, mean residuals of 0.2" on both axes).

2014 04 01.1045

Several low resolution spectra of this transient were obtained on 2014 04 01.1045 by Gianluca Masi, Francesca Nocentini and Patrick Schmeer, remotely using the 14" robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Ceccano, Italy. For this, we used a 100 lines/mm grating, with a dispersion of 34.5 angstroms/pixel. After co-adding several images, we see clear H-alpha emission.

2014 04 01.18

We managed to make our image and spectrum available here: http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2014/04/01/pnv-j202142343103296-nova-cygnus-1-apr-2014/